Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
26/09/2005
Date of Amendment
26/09/2005
Name of Property
Y Pisgotwr (The Fisherman)
Address
1 Heol-yr-Wydda (Snowdon Street)
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Location
On the corner of High Street and Snowdon Street.
History
Nos 1-3 Snowdon Street were built in the mid C19 and shown on the 1871 Tremadog estate survey and 1888 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of 1-3 Snowdon Street.
A 3-storey range of large blocks of roughly dressed slate-stone, painted white in the middle and upper storeys, under a slate roof, which is hipped to the splayed corner; blocking course to corner and the High Street elevation. No 1 is a shop and house, the lower storey of which has a continuous boarded fascia and deep bracketed cornice. Its entrance is in the splayed corner, which has replacement glazed doors, above which the wall is faced in white glazed tiles and a large painted sign. In the single-window High Street elevation is a replacement shop window in an earlier opening, 4-pane horned sash window in the middle storey, and in the upper storey a round-headed 4-pane sash window under a gable. In the 3-window Snowdon Street elevation are 12-pane hornless sash windows in the middle storey and similar 9-pane windows in the upper storey. The lower storey has original openings: a replacement half-glazed door and overlight, a window to its L and shop window to its R, both replacements.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a prominently sited pair of shops and houses in the town centre retaining definite C19 character and original detail.
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